Plastic pipes, especialiy polyethylene pipes have grown to become one of the freguently utilized material in pipeline systems owing to its advantages of corrosion, biological and chemical resistance over traditional metal ...

This work evaluates the performance of the salp swarm algorithm (SSA) for truss system optimization problems and presents a novel method called the modified salp swarm algorithm (MSSA). Five truss structures, previously ...

The growing concern about global climate change and its adverse impacts on societies is putting severe pressure on the construction industry as one of the largest producers of greenhouse gases. Given the environmental ...

Determination of the optimal route in transportation activities is one of the major problems in transportation. Therefore, efficient techniques deserve our utmost attention to detect optimal routes. In this study, a novel ...

The main purpose of this study is to respond to an important question in the field of structural engineering: is the seismic collapse capacity of optimally designed concentrically steel braced frames acceptable or not? The ...

Defining the suitable positions for landfill sites on a regional scale is a decision-making procedure based on a number of criteria. In this study, geographic information system analysis and multi criteria decision making ...

Son yıllarda bütün dünyada dağlık bölgelerin sosyal ve ekonomik gelişmelerine yönelik çalışmalar yapılmaktadır. Doğu Karadeniz Bölgesi topraklarının bir kısmı dağlık alanlardadır. Bu çalışmada, Doğu Karadeniz Bölgesi'nde ...

Hydrocarbons, originating from oil and gas industries, are considered a potential risk for Nayband Bay, a natural marine park with extended mangroves, located on the north coastlines of the Persian Gulf, Iran. This paper ...

Wakes and vortices are commonly observed in fluid flows around bluff bodies, a phenomenon which is called vortex shedding. Such vortices are named as von Kármán vortices since their first investigation is performed by the ...